24. WiOpt 2026: Columbus OH, USA
24th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2026, Columbus OH, USA, June 3-6, 2026
Falko Dressler, I-Hong Hou, Bo Ji
IFIP Open Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, ISBN: 978-3-903176-80-5
Contents
Session 1A: Bandits and Online Learning
Probe-then-Commit Multi-Objective Bandits: Theoretical Benefits of Limited Multi-Arm Feedback
Ming Shi
Fair Online Learning for Restless Bandits
Tasmeen Zaman Ornee, Arnob Ghosh, Ananthram Swami, Ness B. Shroff
Ashutosh Soni, Peizhong Ju, Atilla Eryilmaz, Ness B. Shroff
Session 1B: Age of Information
Using Age of Information for Throughput Optimal Spectrum Sharing
Hongjae Nam, Vishrant Tripathi, David Love
Version AoI Optimization under Power and General Distortion Constraints in Uplink NOMA
Gangadhar Karevvanavar, Rajshekhar Vishweshwar Bhat, Nikolaos Pappas
Beyond Freshness and Semantics: A Coupon-Collector Framework for Effective Status Updates
Youssef Ahmed, Arnob Ghosh, Chih-Chun Wang, Ness B. Shroff
Age of Estimates: When to Submit Jobs to a Markov Machine to Maximize Revenue (Invited paper)
Sahan Liyanaarachchi, Sennur Ulukus
Session 1C: Emerging Topics: Quantum, Haptic Communication, and ISAC
ISACSoil: Multi-Layer Soil Moisture Sensing with LoRa Cross-Soil Communication
Yawen Wang, Yimeng Liu, Jingkai Lin, Yidong Ren, Younsuk Dong, Tianxing Li
Distributed Quantum Error Correction: Advancements and Future Research Directions (Invited paper)
Shahram Babaie, Sean Grzenda, Chunming Qiao
Bin Luo, John Chi Shing Lui
Predictive Hybrid Resource Scheduling for Haptic Traffic with Diffusion-Based Offline Reinforcement
Yu Yeh, Georgios Kokkinis, Qi Zhang, Salah Eddine Elayoubi, Vineeth S Varma
Session 1D: Federated Learning
When the Server Steps In: Calibrated Updates for Fair Federated Learning
Tianrun Yu, Kaixiang Zhao, Cheng Zhang, Anjun Gao, Yueyang Quan, Zhuqing Liu, Minghong Fang
FedHusky: Accelerating Hybrid Federated Learning with Client Hopping
Fangtong Zhou, Yi Shi, Wenjing Lou, Thomas Hou
Privacy-Accuracy Trade-offs in Federated Learning with Data and Privacy Heterogeneity
Po-Yen Chen, Nick Farid, Mingyan Liu
Communication-Efficient State Synchronization for Stable Second-Order Federated Learning
Ahmed Hany, Karim A. Banawan, Nourhan Sakr, Karim G. Seddik, Tamer ElBatt
Session 2A: Edge Computing and Offloading
PROTEUS: Proactive Latency-Constrained Enhanced Ubiquitous Surveillance
Gaurav Singh, Arnob Ghosh, Debashri Roy
HOSL: Hybrid-Order Split Learning for Memory-Constrained Edge Training
Aakriti Lnu, Zhe Li, Dandan Liang, Chao Huang, Rui Li, Haibo Yang
Structure-Informed Online Bandwidth Allocation for Heterogeneous Real-Time Synchronized Streaming
Xuan Wang, Ying Sun, Atilla Eryilmaz, Bin Li
Session 2B: Resource Allocation and Network Optimization
Utility Maximization in Wireless Backhaul Networks with Service Guarantees
Nicholas W Jones, Eytan Modiano
Planning for Reliable Multi-Technology Networks Under QoS Guarantees
Maria Samonaki, Nicolai Kröger, Fidan Mehmeti, Wolfgang Kellerer, Carmen Mas-Machuca
Bi-Level Online Provisioning and Scheduling with Switching Costs and Cross-Level Constraints
Jialei Liu, Can Emre Koksal, Ming Shi
Session 2C: 5G/6G and Beyond
Priority-Aware Encoding for Bandwidth-Efficient Real-Time Classification in 5G Networks
Chengzhang Li, Peizhong Ju, Atilla Eryilmaz, Ness B. Shroff
Interference Prediction and Beam Alignment in 5G Indoor mmWave UDNs
Sihyun Choi, Sungbo Eo, Changhee Joo, Saewoong Bahk
Eduardo David Lotto, Eleonora Cicciarella, Francesco Restuccia, Francesca Meneghello
Mobile Distributed MIMO for 6G: Learning Meets Coherent Joint Transmission (Invited paper)
Usama Saeed, Ramin Safavinejad, Yibin Liang, Karim Said, Daniel Jakubisin, Lingjia Liu
Session 2D: Semantic and Efficient Communications
Adaptive Unicast-Multicast Strategies for Over-the-Air Updates in Multi-Receiver Wi-Fi Networks
Fatemeh Jafari, Valentin Thomas Haider, Luca Parolini, Christian Wimmer, Fidan Mehmeti, Wolfgang Kellerer
Rohit Bhusal, Hongzhi Guo, Mehmet Can Vuran
Measure Once, Train Often: Scaling Waveform Classifiers with Channel-Augmented Data (Invited paper)
Sage Trudeau, Spencer Chun, Brandon Nguyen, Kaushik Chowdhury
Session 3A: Network Control and Scheduling
Saptarshi Mandal, R. Srikant
Index Policies for RMAB Problems with Varying Capacity and Global State Dependency (Invited paper)
Sixiang Zhou, Xiaojun Lin, Lei Jiao
Optimal Sampling and Actuation Policies of a Markov Source over a Wireless Channel (Invited paper)
Mehrdad Salimnejad, Anthony Ephremides, Marios Kountouris, Nikolaos Pappas
Monitoring State Transitions in Markovian Systems with Sampling Cost
Kumar Saurav, Ness B. Shroff, Yingbin Liang
Session 3B: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface
Tractable Analysis of Realistic Gains from Intelligent Metasurfaces
Santos Bustos Julian Alfonso, Jean-Marc Kelif, Lynda Zitoune, Eitan Altman
Secure and Efficient Transmission in Hybrid Sparse RIS-Enabled Internet of Robotic Things
Gaurav Singh, Sravani Kurma, Debashri Roy, Vini Chaudhary
Optimal RIS Placement in Multi-User MISO Systems with User Randomness
Abhishek Rajasekaran, Mehdi Karbalayghareh, Xiaoyan Ma, David Love, Christopher G. Brinton
Session 3C: Network Economics and Incentives
Assuring Service Level Agreements in Open Radio Access Networks: An End-to-End System Design
Yufan He, Tuan Van Ngo, Mao Van Ngo, Binbin Chen, Tony Q. S. Quek, Howard Yang
Contract Design for Dynamic Spectrum and Infrastructure Sharing under Asymmetric Risk Information
Zongyun Xie, Randall A Berry
Internet of Agentic AI: Incentive-Compatible Distributed Teaming and Workflow
Ya-Ting Yang, Quanyan Zhu
Tamoghna Sarkar, Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Session 3D: Learning for Wireless Systems
Cells on Autopilot: Adaptive Cell (Re)Selection via Reinforcement Learning
Marvin Illian, Ramin Khalili, Antonio A. de A. Rocha, Lin Wang
Physics-Informed Parametric Bandits for Beam Alignment in mmWave Communications
Hao Qin, Thang Nhat Duong, Ming F. Li, Chicheng Zhang
AWaRe-SAC: Proactive Slice Admission Control under Weather-Induced Capacity Uncertainty
Dror Jacoby, Yanzhi Li, Shuyue Yu, Nicola Di Cicco, Hagit Messer, Gil Zussman, Igor Kadota
Faezeh Dehghan Tarzjani, Bhaskar Krishnamachari